Definitions for grins

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grins grin

Spelling: [grin]

IPA: /grɪn/

Grins is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in grins (ginrs).

Definitions for grins

noun

1. a broad smile.
2. the act of producing a broad smile.
3. the act of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth, as in anger or pain.
4. Chiefly Scot. a snare like a running noose.

verb (used with object)

1. to express or produce by grinning:
2. to catch in a nooselike snare.

verb (used without object)

1. to smile broadly, especially as an indication of pleasure, amusement, or the like.
2. to draw back the lips so as to show the teeth, as a snarling dog or a person in pain.
3. to show or be exposed through an opening, crevice, etc.

Origin of grins

before 1000; Middle English grinnen, grennen, Old English grennian; cognate with Old High German grennan to mutter

Examples for grins

I saw them grin at the little man and spit tobacco juice his way.

With a grin and a swagger of pure bravado Mulready turned and obeyed.

Then, with a grin, “And we all know how degenerate those people are.”

Or is he recognized as colored only in respect to his peculiar wearin' of the grin?

“It will only be a moderate size disaster,” Kleiman says with a grin.

And the devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.

Besides,” she adds with the grin of a confident fashionista, “people are going to want to wear the clothes that I wear anyway.

Then suddenly that face cracked, broadened, spread to a grin.

Viewers leave with a grin, but are no wiser about the frightening symptoms of ALS.

The young infantryman in me beamed and I started to grin, thinking about the glory.